{"id":8915,"date":"2013-12-05T04:08:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:08:18","slug":"for-thee-but-not-for-me-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/for-thee-but-not-for-me-again\/","title":{"rendered":"For Thee, But Not For Me (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"U.S.<\/a>Fox News:<\/a><\/p>\n

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said Sunday the Catholic church remains opposed to ObamaCare in large part because it requires businesses to offer health-insurance plans that include no-cost contraception.<\/p>\n

Dolan, the former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the church\u2019s position is a difficult one, considering it has supported universal, affordable and comprehensive health care since the early 1990s.
\n\u201cWe bishops have really been in kind of a tough place,\u201d Dolan said on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d “That’s how far we go in this battle. We’re not Johnny-come-latelies.”<\/p>\n

He also warned President Obama that the contraception mandate in his signature health care law might \u201cpush aside\u201d some of his biggest supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be with you. We want to be strong, and if you keep doing this, we\u2019re not going to be able to be one of your cheerleaders,\u201d said Dolan, several days after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the mandate by the Christian-owned retail chain Hobby Lobby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the Roman Catholic Church wants universal healthcare, paid for by taxpayers. That\u2019s a debatable point of view, but far from outlandish. But then the church wants to opt out of those parts of this supposedly universal healthcare that it does not like. Everyone else, of course, has to lump it. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s religious privilege, not \u201creligious freedom\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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